COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTIONCask; Seasonal - Summer.
Edotors note: Discontinued some years ago. There is now a regular 5.2% version, which has a separate listing. Please enter any ratings for that version under that listing and NOT here!

A mild/pale well hopped bitter slightly sweet to start and light bitterness developping into a full fruity aftertaste.

[Cask at GBBF 2005 - as Alf’s IPA] An orange beer with a thin white head. The aroma has slight notes of butter as well as hops. The flavor is fruity combined with notes of hay and bitter lemon, leading to a dry end.

Cask, GBBF 2003 Nearly all the British beers were on handpump at the GBBF - it was the "foreign" beers, including American, that were gravity. Gold colour. Soft citric aroma. Soft citric flavour. Medium bodied. Quite dull. Flat finish which returns with mild and soon vanishing citric flavours.

Yellow color, some fizziness apparent. The aroma is more musty than hoppy, with some grassiness. Decent palate, and a lot of carbonation. Very classically English IPA that doesn't come close to the American take on the style. (cask at GBBF 2003--I have in my notes it was a hand-pump at this festival, not a gravity cask)

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